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Scary Website
17 September 2006 › 11 comments
Just when I think things on the Internet can’t get any more freaky, out of the blue, I get a link via chat with a friend to the Newburgh Assembly of God. There I am greeted by a talking vectorized Jesus that looks like this…
Curious what type of a service would allow their customers to create a Jesus that says whatever they want, I clicked on over to SitePal. When I said there was nothing scarier, I guess I was wrong, because using their demo tools, I was able to make a Scoutmaster that looks like the old Street Fighter II character Blanka, a fearsome green-skinned beast with orange hair…
I am sure that a character such as this would go over well on a youth group website, and would instantly command the repect of the kids. Or perhaps it would just get you laughed at. As funny as these types of things are to me, apparently someone is making money from it, because I see them popping up in more and more advertisements. I just couldn’t resist, so I went and created a public Flickr Group. Post your crazy creations there, if you so desire.
Discussion + Dissension
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#1 Jonathan Sampson
Eek…dude, that is freaking weird!
Matthew 24
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23 Then if any man shall say unto you, Lo, here is Christ, or there; believe it not. 24 For there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and shall shew great signs and wonders; insomuch that, if it were possible, they shall deceive the very elect…
SitePal may deceive the very elect!
#2 Nathan Smith
Jonathan: Exactly my point. I mean, it totally had me fooled. I thought there was a live video of Jesus talking to me from MySpace or something. This is easily the scariest thing I’ve seen in a long while. Check out the animated calendar background, gotta love that. Plus, on the contact page, you’re greeted by a kid that must be from the movie Children of the Corn.
#3 Doug Karr
The last thing I needed to wake up to this morning was Jesus with a mullet and some freak in a Girl Scout outfit.
Thanks.
#4 Colin
“Hey. It’s me. Jesus.”
This could be the next big viral video…
#5 Jared Christensen
I felt bad for laughing at Jesus, but woah—that’s just hilariously creepy.
#6 Dan Mall
The scariest part for me is that after Jesus is done talking, his eyes follow your mouse around the screen. I mean I know He can see everything we do, but wow…
#7 Nathan Smith
Doug: To be fair, I believe that is actually a Boy Scout uniform that SitePal lets you choose as one of the outfits for their characters. Still scary though.
Jared: I wouldn’t consider it laughing at Jesus, rather at gall it took for someone to actually put that representation on a website, let alone a company that facilitates it. The whole thing is absolutely laughable, and yet so sad.
#8 Sean Fraser
We should be seeing more and more of SitePal’s handywork: they have a animated banner adverisement on Technorati where the eyes follow the cursor. Neat-o. :-/
#9 Jason Beaird
Wow…that’s almost as cool as the Deluxe Action Figure Jesus with glow-in-the-dark miracle hands. As Dan pointed out, the fact that he follows your mouse is pretty scary. If you put your pointer up at about ten o’clock above his head you can see a tiny rectangular hole in “the heavens”. I agree…laughable but sad.
#10 Laura
You know someone is going to have to answer for that – glad it isn’t me.
#11 Paul
Wow. Apparently, Jesus was a blue-eyed Swedish fella.
That’s up there with the Jesus Christ action figure.